THE BRITISH THREAD II

Thank you peoples.

All the salons are smoke free but if I'm not about, you can usually find me stood at the back door puffing away!

Embarrassed

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Congratulations Dorothy, it is a pity that most awards though lack the finishing touch, the recipients name should in my opinion be etched on prior to it being given, however the dust from etching procedures could be dangerous to health and we don't want that, do we?

Spendi

If I hadn't jacked in with the fags mate, (and it is a difficult task) I could have given you some support here! However, I have and I won't!

But, let me tell you something! I am bloody flabbergasted that you are on your Jack Todd in this, not one bit of support, Dorothy and Smorgsi (I think Smorgsi has a fag) and there must be others, for crying out loud some 25% of the population is on the smoke? Isn't it?

Talk about sheep to the slaughter house.

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Sorry Mathos, I applaud you for giving up an' all that but I do actually agree with spendy (as much as it pains me to admit it).

I just don't have the ability or the inclination to argue about it in the long winded way you guys are.

I went drinking in the gay village after the graduation thing and the club was DEAD and I was really quite annoyed that I had to keep nipping out for a smoke.

Rolling Eyes

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spendius wrote:

... if one could link them all to passive smoking by constant repetitive assertion, like Goebells explained in his "How to" book, one might have the whole nation running around like silly buggers which is the very epitome of the technique known as the "practical joke" or the "wind-up". And, as a bonus, avoid having to explain the cause of the primary cancers. And, as the icing on the cake, make a fortune as well whilst looking like 50,000 Florence Nightingales all rolled into one coincentrated loci of pure virtuous concern for other human beings such as the baby strapped to the back of its mum for twelve hours so you can all have bargains in the shops.

Spendy, if there was no legislation in the interests of public health we would have smog everywhere, measles, whooping cough, typhus, TB, you name it, and the Thames and other rivers would be full of sewage.
No clean water to drink. High infant mortality. Lots of bad things.

So stop bleating.

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

Sorry Mathos, I applaud you for giving up an' all that but I do actually agree with spendy (as much as it pains me to admit it).

I just don't have the ability or the inclination to argue about it in the long winded way you guys are.

I went drinking in the gay village after the graduation thing and the club was DEAD and I was really quite annoyed that I had to keep nipping out for a smoke.

Well I think as a smoker you should show Spendi some support!

Mac has been dragging him off his couch and wiping the floor, back yard, and front garden with him on this one!

The poor sod needs a bit of help..

Fair play to Mac, he's loving it, opportunity like this doesn't come so often does it mate?

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

I went drinking in the gay village after the graduation thing and the club was DEAD and I was really quite annoyed that I had to keep nipping out for a smoke.

Canal street? Or the back passage leading to canal street?

oh dear I'm gonna get slated for this but what the hell here it comes

SUBMIT

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I think Smorgsi has a fag

I did when I was a public school...

Now I just smoke cigars and marijuana.

I agree with spends too.

Muckty is being pious as eff on this one, of course he makes salient points, but do we really (as adults) need these pointing out? The smoking ban was inevitable, but I don't accept it with good grace. I do, however, accept that knowing all the risks I have made the choice to continue to smoke until I'm ready to give up. I like the fact that this act is making it more difficult for me to smoke, it may hasten the day I finally pack it in.

Having said that, I just wish the government would tackle equally damaging social ills with as much gusto.

Addiction to nicotine is all powerful, it has a social aspect to it (for now) that's hard to counteract. The government encouraged me to smoke, takes tax off me for the habit, they were simply legal pushers for years. It's a drug, but instead of 'waiting for the man' you go to a shop and purchase it. It really is as simple as that.

Can't wait to see Muckty and have a good old 'discussion' on this subject... coming over all snooty, non smokery on those of us still suffering the addiction. We may stink of fags, but we are more interesting than non smokers.

That's my 5p worth.

Can we have some humour now? Maybe a little smut? Anybody watching Big Brother? Now there's a good discussion - Trash TV - your opinions please.

x

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Steve 41oo wrote:

Dorothy Parker wrote:

I went drinking in the gay village after the graduation thing and the club was DEAD and I was really quite annoyed that I had to keep nipping out for a smoke.

Canal street? Or the back passage leading to canal street?

oh dear I'm gonna get slated for this but what the hell here it comes

SUBMIT

Yes...

and the 'C' is regularly blocked out on the street sign.

Really!

x

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smorgs wrote:

and the 'C' is regularly blocked out on the street sign.

Really!

x

I've to take a photo of that again .... can't refind those I've taken before :wink:

And, of course, congratulation DP!

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Clary wrote:

No rain here!!!! Mirabile dictu!
But heavy cloud and thunderstorms predicted for Sunday when I've got 18 people coming to lunch

Well, we'll get it a bit warm on the weekend

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I wonder whether spendi similarly understands that no real health benefits accrue from drinking out of storm sewers.

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Had an interesting evening yesterday when we went to a Japanese-style restaurant for a change, then went into the new bar in the Hilton on the 23rd floor, difficult to get in but worth it for the superb views, had a coffee there then went to a performance, as part of the Manchester International Festival, of Chopin piano pieces interspersed with readings from a book by Szpilman, the pianist who survived the Warsaw ghetto.
Very powerful performances.
A sell-out and rapturously received.

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evenin' all.

Just sat through 2 hours of my daughter's school production of Joseph and the Amazing Technical (as she calls it) Dream Coat.

Andrew Lloyd Webber has a lot to answer for.

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Mac T, are you showing off?

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farmerman wrote:

I wonder whether spendi similarly understands that no real health benefits accrue from drinking out of storm sewers.

The legislation to provide a purified, piped water supply is not the same as that requiring sewage to be collected and treated, although a quick reading of my post might have led to that assumption.

Spendy of course deplores this unwarranted intrusion upon his personal freedom, and still fetches his drinking and washing water in a bucket from the well beside his privy.

Shocked

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

Mac T, are you showing off?

No, Smorgs told us the change the subject.

And it cost me a bloody fortune too.

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I'm just jealous. I really wanna go to that bar.

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

I'm just jealous. I really wanna go to that bar.

Go, it's dead dead good.

But it's very strange getting in. You have to queue for the lift, and they only let a few people up at a time, and if there are functions on, drinkers have to wait until folks with reservations etc etc and whatever all take precedence.
You might go on a quieter night, but we had to wait 20 minutes on the red carpet, and came very close to knocking it on the head.

But I'm glad we didn't.

Oh, and the view from the bogs is fantastic.

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I'm afraid I have nothing so exciting to report.

I just lay in my recliner in the lean-to with large windows and read a bit, had a roll-up or two, watched the rain and the resident robin hop about and the willow fronds dance in the winds and drifted off to dream of things I must not speak of and on waking contributed a post about haircuts on the ID thread.

Oh- I had a cup of tea and a ginger biscuit.

I have had my nightly soak now and just have time to participate in this orgy of solipsism before I stroll down to the pub for a few pints and hopefully have a blimp of some partially exposed tits.

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spendius wrote:

I'm afraid I have nothing so exciting to report.

I just lay in my recliner in the lean-to with large windows and read a bit, had a roll-up or two, watched the rain and the resident robin hop about and the willow fronds dance in the winds and drifted off to dream of things I must not speak of and on waking contributed a post about haircuts on the ID thread.

Oh- I had a cup of tea and a ginger biscuit.

I have had my nightly soak now and just have time to participate in this orgy of solipsism before I stroll down to the pub for a few pints and hopefully have a blimp of some partially exposed tits.

well for all the times ive called you a complete pratt... i apologise...sort of.

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